Grigori Rasputin - The Mad Monk - Russian History - Extra History - Part 1

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Oh boy another figure in history steeped in more myth and legend than anything else huh? Who exactly was the Mad Monk of Russia? Why did he become so famous? And how many hands did he have in the fall of tzarist Russia?
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@extrahistory 2 года назад

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@skilzy7648 2 года назад

Hello!

@GenaF 2 года назад

Just like every other character in this video, Rasputin looks pretty much 'armless 😁

@SoimulX 2 года назад

@Newdivide 2 года назад

Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on - Boney M

@wow-roblox8370 2 года назад

Also April fools is on the 1st not t(e 2nd so upload it in the 1st next time?

@tommagennis 2 года назад

Don’t forget to add “Oh, those Russians…” at the end this time.

@romeersharma5423 2 года назад

Aay blyat...

@StrickerRei-Chn 2 года назад

There was a cat that really was gone

@GrokNZ 2 года назад

ra ra rasputin, russia's greatest love machine, it was a shame how he carried on.

@kokuinomusume 2 года назад

Hey, hey, hey, hey...

@soupcanltd2603 2 года назад

@eimi Fukada🌹 that is the most desperate attempt at trying to get someone to click on a link i’ve ever seen

@qwellen7521 2 года назад

It’s insane that rasputin’s supervillain origin is was probably just a midlife crisis.

@sarasamaletdin4574 2 года назад

Midlife crisis at 28? Don’t hurt me, I am not middle aged…

@fallhayv8470 2 года назад

@@sarasamaletdin4574 You are in the middle between 0 and 56. I don't say you will die at 56, but, well, Russian life expectancy in Rasputin times was around 30-33 years. Rasputin himself lived until 47, though.

@uzrdutiutfiztdf3545 2 года назад

@@fallhayv8470 i do not know the exact numbers, but i am pretty sure that this is not the life expectancy for adults, but the average life expectancy. back in the time a huge number of chiuldren died in the first year, which has a huge effect on average lifespan. it does not mean that an 28 year old has to expect to die in 5 years normally. even medieval peasants normally lived to their 50s, when they did not fall ill, starve or get killed for some reason.

@robtoe10 2 года назад

Faith No More has much to say about that!

@AubriGryphon 2 года назад

@@fallhayv8470 That's not how life expectancy works. Since the dawn of time, a human who makes it past adolescence can expect to live into their 70s, barring illness, accident, or violence. It's just that the high youth mortality rate drags the average down. It's only in extremely modern times -- like since 1900 -- that the youth mortality rate dropped below 30%.

@Chimaera242 2 года назад

No disrespect to Rasputin, but the mystical composer who tried to end the world with orchestras definitely seems like someone who deserves more than being a footnote.

@stevenirizarry1304 2 года назад

relatable

@thatguy9502 2 года назад

ikr i want to hear his story and also the music for reference purposes;)

@esthersmith3056 2 года назад

Scriabin is a moderately known and influential composer, but there's probably not much to say about him historically without digging into music theory. He never finished writing Mysterium, the [week-long multimedia] piece he believed would end the world, but he did leave behind ~60 pages of work on the prelude, which was later arranged into the three hour Preparation for the Final Mystery.

@sor3999 2 года назад

*Tried*

@kacperdrabikowski5074 2 года назад

Did he really intend to write a piece that would take a WEEK to perform?? And he intended it to be a world-ending ritual?? How is it possible no one tried to make a fantasy/cosmic horror novel out of this?

@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874 2 года назад

The irony that Rasputin of all people was the _Sane_ member of Saint Petersburg's monk clique...

@JoshSweetvale 2 года назад

Enlightened self-interest. Can't enjoy the good life if you're dead.

@seytanuakbar3022 2 года назад

Saint Petersburg's monk clique were right in their opinions, if you consider later events.

@nulolove 2 года назад

@@seytanuakbar3022 Explain please

@Solqueen86 2 года назад

@@seytanuakbar3022 Only right to their own eyes because they killed off anyone that said differ

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

You call getting drunk on Madeira, boasting about your connections with the Imperial Family, waving your junk in people's faces (yes, Rasputin really did this, and at a restaurant of all places) and sending for women the way you and I would send for pizza SANE?!

@user-eh1tv9pj2d 2 года назад

"Next episode: Royal Blood" Is this a joke about Alexei having hemophilia?

@crzylkfx 2 года назад

I think it is

@tolkiennini 2 года назад

You can bet it totally is.

@troyjardine5850 2 года назад

Thanks Queen Victoria

@ecurewitz 2 года назад

could be

@oKingsWild 2 года назад

Mama Mia that's a lotta blood!

@troperhghar9898 2 года назад

6:48 "and kicked a young Josef Stalin out of seminary" Oh the alternate paths life could have taken

@Imperiused 2 года назад

Actually its up for debate whether this happened. IIRC, Stalin bragged to his friends about being kicked out, but from the records we have it seems like Stalin just stopped showing up.

@harbingerd.8457 2 года назад

Nah man, old Stalin was much more interested in Communism than the Seminary. He would've joined Lenin anyway

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Same with a certain Austrian and art school. If only they let him in...

@oqo3310 7 месяцев назад

tbh another man would have filled his shoes, just like if the austrian painter actually succeeded at painting. Heck they might have done both at once.

@dastatman274 2 года назад

"Okay guys today we're going to torture ourselves!" "gets shackles" "pokes eye with stick" Rasputin: "wears the same shirt"

@Kamina.D.Fierce 2 года назад

Practical. Nonhygenic but practical.

@lordbelou7279 2 года назад

True. And it makes him seducting girls even incredible-ier

@Readysetheal 2 года назад

You know, I'm something of a mad monk myself

@guitaristAustin 2 года назад

Hell I’d rather go with the poker. I don’t want shirt worms

@guitaristAustin 2 года назад

Can I choose the eye tho? My right eye is lazy.

@soundwavesuperior28 2 года назад

Ngl, if they did one of Rasputin, there’s no reason they can’t do one of Frederick the Great. Who’s agrees with me?

@lynxlynx4149 2 года назад

@marcus4046 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8Ly16oHJY2A.html

@charleslarrivee2908 2 года назад

Part of a companion piece with his great enemy, Maria Theresa of Austria.

@YoungFlyz644 2 года назад

I really want one on Fredrick the Great. I read the entire Wikipedia page on him.

@ChiefLibrarianAhriman 2 года назад

Yeah

@JunkPhuJP 2 года назад

Gonna be honest, I’ve been waiting for a proper Rasputin video since your “Ra-Ra-Rasputin” video ages ago. Woo!!

@addisondrudge6908 2 года назад

SAME

@inkheart151 2 года назад

“He stared at people with an intensity that they never forgot…” That explains why his pictures are all so creepy…..

@rap4thahood 2 года назад

I would love to see one about Halley's Comet in Extra History, so many ties in about that comet throughout history

@andreasbuehler1821 2 года назад

The economy, fools!

@safe-keeper1042 2 года назад

I remember seeing it in... was it the nineties? Not easy to forget.

@andrawsy 2 года назад

The end is nigh!

@rohandas5873 2 года назад

@@safe-keeper1042 That was the Hale Bopp comet. Halley's Comet last appeared in 1986

@user-sf2if2df4n 2 года назад

If only we had comet sense...

@MaxRobertoErikson 2 года назад

"Coming Up: Royal Blood" I see what you did there.

@gwenward2141 2 года назад

Aka "why keeping the royal gene pool small and exclusive is a bad idea" Aka "the Hemophilia was probably Queen Victoria's fault"

@Mikebumpful 2 года назад

@@gwenward2141 Inbreeding among royals is a pragmatic choice. It keeps the pool of possible claimants to the various thrones small!

@Edmonton-of2ec 2 года назад

@@gwenward2141 It was actually her father’s fault. Most cases of hemophilia are from genetic mutation, not inheritance, and a big cause of mutation is having a relatively old parent at the time a person is conceived. Victoria’s father was 50 years old at conception and 51 when she was born

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

@@Mikebumpful That's a fascinating tidbit of info concerning royals (and their many health issues) that I didn't know or consider until just now!

@babygorilla4233 2 года назад

If I may I'd like to tell the anecdote I heard of how Rasputin gained the favor of the Tsar. The Tsar's child had a bleeding disorder which was almost definitely caused by royal inbreeding. Rasputin was brought in to treat the child, first thing he did was to demand the child's mother leave the room. His reason was that her panicking was upsetting the child. Sure enough once the mother was banished and Rasputin calmed everyone down the bleeding subsided. This had Rasputin hailed as a true healer and freind of the Tsar forevermore. Today with modern medical science we know why that worked. Panic = elevated heart rate = more bleeding.

@chriswheeler5183 Год назад

Several months late, but he also prevented the doctors from giving the boy aspirin, which thinned his blood, making the condition worse

@dimitrimartiny2977 10 месяцев назад

@@chriswheeler5183Was rasputin a genius or just had good luck

@diegoontour 2 года назад

The man, the myth, the legend himself...Rasputin!

@chunheiso5806 2 года назад

Ra Ra Rasputin Russians greatest love machine

@spanishboysmodels2876 2 года назад

@@chunheiso5806 there was a cat that really was gone

@rafaeldavid32 2 года назад

@@spanishboysmodels2876 Ra Ra Rasputin. Lover of the Russian queen.

@spanishboysmodels2876 2 года назад

@@rafaeldavid32 it was a shame how he carried on

@walterbrunswick 2 года назад

That would be Lenin, a visionary and revolutionary Rasputin was a drunken sexaholic infested with demons ... and probably some bugs

@AceMoonshot 2 года назад

Grigori 'I'm-Not-Mad-I-Just-Get-These-Headaches-Monk' Rasputin looked like he wasn't someone I'd trust around a daughter.

@andyjay729 2 года назад

Especially given his resemblance to Charles Manson. If, as the alternate theories claim, he ultimately orchestrated the Romanovs' murder, would that make the Romanovs equivalent to Sharon Tate and her friends, or record producer Terry Melcher? (Sharon bought Melcher's house; supposedly Manson organized the murders there as a threat to Terry for him supposedly screwing Charles out of a record deal.)

@rosiehawtrey 2 года назад

Someone has been reading too much Pterry 😁

@AceMoonshot 2 года назад

@@rosiehawtrey No such thing. GNU Pterry.

@rosiehawtrey 2 года назад

@@AceMoonshot I'd love to see what Pterry would have made of the current crop - I'd give Saville a primary school before I'd give Boris Bey* a government. And as for Darth Dumbass - duh-mocracy for the win - Vetinari would be laughing himself sick (inside). And it could go very Russian in a couple of years - Darth Dumbass and Darth Priti (somewhere to the right of Magda Goebbels Patel) - #andthenitgotworse "I feel a great disturbance in the force; as if a million voices cried out in agony; Boris, give us back our grandparents..." *Flashman on Elphy Bey describes the Boris and covid perfectly..

@daughter-of-loki1062 2 года назад

Have you seen photos of him? I wouldn't trust him around anything with or without a pulse.

@charlietaube4026 2 года назад

I didn’t know Rasputin had kids… it’s kind of weird to think about that, he just left one day and never came back the same.

@rosegold-beats 9 дней назад

He has family alive till this day

@ledsanreplays8225 2 года назад

Wait wait wait, so he could actually "preach the bible like a preacher"?

@kaasmaster8892 2 года назад

Full of ecxtacy and fire?

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

There's really not that much to that. Read the book a few times, memorize your favourite parts and have the self-confidence to shout anyone down who doubts you.

@cowbeanboi412 2 года назад

But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire

@sarahluise3153 2 года назад

@@cowbeanboi412 Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen

@pofromteletubbies1243 2 года назад

@@sarahluise3153 he was the cat that really was gone

@awald5 2 года назад

"You think maybe the fact that our familiess are, just, absolutely *teeming* with hemophilia means our ideas about aristocracy and needing to keep bloodlines pure are outdated or wrong?" "lol no. It just means we need a - in this case literally - unwashed Siberian peasant to heal our kids, what you said was weird."

@the11382 2 года назад

Fun fact: The disease that the son had, was created by Habsburg inbreeding. It passed through the generations until the son got it.

@KingofAwesomness14 2 года назад

if only they knew or learned.

@JonathanLundkvist 2 года назад

I've been wanting this since your wonderful April Fools joke.

@primedino5485 2 года назад

Same

@randomstuffproductions540 2 года назад

@@primedino5485 ditto

@louthegiantcookie 2 года назад

What's interesting is how this whole "midlife crisis" thing is repeated with a few infamous historical figures. Rasputin, Hong Xiquan and Cromwell were all unremarkable until they had these transformative experiences and seemed to become almost entirely different/worse people.

@sor3999 2 года назад

Want a more contemporary example? John McCain didn't want to settle into ordinary domestic life. There's also a component of ego stroking here as well as they all want to strive to be someone important or relevant. Steve Jobs was also the same way, I think Woz said he always spoke of wanting to be important, but no telling when that triggered in him. Maybe abandonment issues from being adopted?

@SegaDream131 2 года назад

Coping with innocence lost....

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

This is probably how he saw his life: "My life is crap... This woman's beautiful... That priest is fat... God is great... Get me a glass of Madeira (yes he was fond of Madeira)... I love Jesus... I'll have orgies with my fellow Khlysts... GOD. BLESS. THE TSAR!!!!"

@NadDew 2 года назад

Most of those people realized at older age that bad people win most of the time and thinking good will always win eventually, was a very naive idea (from their personal experience).

@andrewberrocal2281 2 года назад

Fun Fact: One of his daughters is buried in Burbank California.

@kyokyodisaster4842 2 года назад

Huh...

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Wow! One more grave that I need to put on my checklist of dead people I want to visit.

@LoyalHistoryBuff 2 года назад

No one survived the murders in 1918! That was proved for once and all when the last two were found!

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

@@LoyalHistoryBuff We're not talking about Nicholas II and family. We're talking about one of the Mad Monk's daughters.

@LoyalHistoryBuff 2 года назад

@Digonto California was never part of Russian Empire. That was Alaska. As for his daughter, she went into the exile after Russian Revolution. That’s why she died in the United States

@navy2843 2 года назад

I remember that joke video about rasputin at then end they said they would make a serious series and after so long it’s finally here

@sarasamaletdin4574 2 года назад

This is hardly not long, they have been wanting to do Julius Caesar since the series started in 2014 but patrons keep voting other things.

@daswordofgork9823 2 года назад

Heck Rasputin is so popular now, he’s a playable character in Warhammer 3 Total War.

@mr.dappermarsh3213 2 года назад

When the April fools joke turns into a series

@Mr_M_History 2 года назад

"I have waited a long time for this moment" - Darth Sidious

@Mr_M_History 2 года назад

@Jamie Rodwell Well played Sir

@luccasgill3314 2 года назад

I’ve been waiting for this moment for years. I’m so happy you’re covering him!

@midsue 2 года назад

Agree it's long time over due that Rasputin finally got his own video 🙂

@luckymouse1988 2 года назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NZOHQwzA0bM.html Here's another video on the guy.

@RamboKingz23 2 года назад

Imagine having a guy like Rasputin ending your whole Empire just because he's crazy and just... Yeah

@Edmonton-of2ec 2 года назад

No, the Empire was going to die in WWI regardless. The dynasty could’ve survived Rasputin. It could not have survived World War, at least when it happened

@sceligator 2 года назад

To be fair the Tsar and Tsarina did a great job of destroying their own empire without Rasputin's help. He just made them feel more certain they were making the right decisions.

@RamboKingz23 2 года назад

@@sceligator true true Oh imagine if Alexander the first of Russia didn't die due to assassination... History would be really different. (I picked him because he really helped a lot in Russia)

@LoyalHistoryBuff 2 года назад

@@RamboKingz23 Did you mean Alexander the Second of Russia?

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Rasputin was definitely a symptom behind the problems going on. The issues that were occurring were in the picture WELL before the Mad Monk arrived on the scene. The people just needed a scapegoat, so they pinned the blame on Rasputin.

@apexhunter935 2 года назад

"If there is one character from Russian history that everyone knows, its grigori rasputin" Laughs in Soviet union

@lars573 2 года назад

I'm sure the glorious mustache will get it's due.

@APersonOnYouTubeX 2 года назад

But Apexhunter, the Soviet Union isn’t a character, the Vikings are

@mylesjude233 2 года назад

I would think Ivan the terrible would be a good candidate for russian historical iconography

@generalfeldmarschall3781 2 года назад

Stalin wasn't Russian !!!

@mylesjude233 2 года назад

@@generalfeldmarschall3781 Wasn't he Georgian

@AliciaNyblade 2 года назад

6:46--"And kicked a young Joseph Stalin out of seminary." Moral of the story: Don't kick out the lonely kids from seminary or art school. Even if they suck, just encourage them and go with it. You could be saving the world from a future dictator.

@uyuman1 2 года назад

Also do not reject lonely kids from art school, you could save the life of 40 million people.

@karry299 2 года назад

I dont recall Churchill or Kennedy being kicked out of any institution...

@CollinBuckman 2 года назад

I don't think Stalin was lonely, he was rebellious, bored of his studies, and declared himself an atheist in his personal journal (which doesn't seem to gel well with studying to become a priest lol), if he wasn't expelled he probably would've left of his own volition.

@AliciaNyblade 2 года назад

@@CollinBuckman Thanks for the info; I didn't know those things.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

@@uyuman1 Yes! Don't bully the quiet ones; they'll come back to bite you later on in one way or another...

@MauriceBear 2 года назад

Guess Rasputin was Russia’s greatest love machine. Edit: pretty sure Stalin isn’t going to return after being booted.

@ultricivuspyre9876 2 года назад

Yeah, he was a cat that, and I can't stress this enough, *really* was gone.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Oh, Stalin will come back, all right. He'll come back and send millions to the gulags... 😡

@OnizukaAllMighty 2 года назад

Fun fact: Rasputin was very gifted in the bedroom and some records say that his little guy was actually a quite humongous guy

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

That record probably coming from a time where he went to a restaurant, unbuttoned his pants, and waved his junk in the faces of diners.

@foam3132 2 года назад

When Bishop Hermogenes kicks Stalin out of church service Stalin: скоро...

@stretopovermind9680 2 года назад

Orthodox Christians do not believe in karma... But karma is a bitch to them as well =)

@GaldirEonai 2 года назад

Fun detail about young Stalin: He was a career criminal. Lenin in fact recruited him specifically for that reason...both as a violent thug and as a go-between to criminal organizations for things like smuggled weapons, fake papers and similar goods and services. Lenin never had a particularly high opinion of the man, considering him at best a necessary evil...

@delasvegas9644 2 года назад

Stalin was actually Georgian, so it would be მალე

@Taistelukalkkuna 2 года назад

"I thought he wouldn´t have balls to do that?" - Josif Stalin -

@KingofAwesomness14 2 года назад

is this the, Stalin should have stayed in church like Hitler getting into art school?

@arcadia5886 2 года назад

Oh, this is gonna be good!! I saw Oversimplified touch on Rasputin. I can't wait to see how you tackle this!

@bthsr7113 2 года назад

Thank you for shedding light on another historical figure inflated into a character of quasi fantasy.

@MargoshaTheKing 2 года назад

I’m so ready for this one, my lads. Let’s gooooo!

@JoeSmith-sl9bq 2 года назад

Me seeing a new Extra Credits, and it’s Rasputin “We good?” “... Yeah, we good”

@jmalmsten 2 года назад

Among the fun facts. The diclaimer at the credits of movies about the event and characters being fictitious... originated with a short silent film supposedly detailing the downfall of Rasputin. Survivors of that downfall sued the movie's producer for lying about their lives and ever since then, lawyers at movie studios plaster the disclaimer on all movies... just in case...

@TransSappho 2 года назад

Fun fact: Theofan is derived from the same Greek name as the name Tiffany

@suomenmegamanzero 2 года назад

Thanks, I learned something new.

@syzygythenightwingwatches 2 года назад

CGP Grey is great.

@baraamuhamed2918 2 года назад

I am not sure if this topic needed a remake i mean the original was perfect

@getellied 2 года назад

Okay, this is gonna be good

@shroomchild1780 2 года назад

I had the same thought when I saw this

@bragapedro 2 года назад

@@izzyyanowitz6240 patreon

@guitaristAustin 2 года назад

One of my favorite characters in history, not for his “Character” necessarily just how much he managed to change single handed the system the tsarist relied on and against them with such precision. Talk about “If you wanna change the rules you got to learn to play the game”

@Mihail_Blagodarny 2 года назад

Lol, is it okay that this was an extremely disgusting person who was denounced more than once from women? And in the end, hiding behind the Christian saints, he committed such fornication that most of the clergy instantly began to try to get rid of him.

@arklaw8306 2 года назад

"Stinky but more comfy" feels pretty damn modern.

@bigheadj.r.628 2 года назад

The lover of the Russian queen has finally grace us with pressure on EC at last

@peytonreed937 2 года назад

well, after the April fools joke from a few years ago, we're finally chatting about Rasputin himself!

@gufosufo337 2 года назад

That's only one year ago.

@peytonreed937 2 года назад

@@gufosufo337 oh, thanks for clearing it up.

@Dinger065 2 года назад

@@gufosufo337 to be fair 2020 felt like it lasted much longer than just a year

@WildBillCox13 2 года назад

He qualified the long accepted paradigm that "faith conquers all" with a caveat: "except during a blizzard on the 4th of July, while drunken nobles are shooting at you . . . AND there's a hole in the ice." A remarkable feat. I salute you, sir.

@rahcollier7006 2 года назад

Wait, Russians would literally go out adventuring!? There've got to be tabletop rpgs about this, right? Does playing Dnd in Russia have shades of connection to history, or something like that?

@andrewprahst2529 2 года назад

Traveling was pretty common in the medieval era

@Groggle7141 2 года назад

@@andrewprahst2529 Rasputin didn't live in the medieval era.

@CollinBuckman 2 года назад

Pilgrimages on foot used to be pretty common across Europe, it was the only way many people could leave their hometown at least for a short time.

@ginoclaves 2 года назад

Pilgrims have been reasonably common in most of the world for quite a long time.

@rikuvakevainen6157 2 года назад

@@Groggle7141 nah. In the 19th century Russia's countriside one could think living in the medieval era.

@KaiserStormTracking 2 года назад

Took long enough The April fools with the man himself is still good

@animationlover247 2 года назад

As interesting as the history of Rasputin is, I would like to see a video about the Romanovs someday. Maybe the rise and fall of the royal family line?

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

I'd LOVE to see that! The vast majority of people know how the dynasty ENDED, but not a lot of people do know how the dynasty BEGAN.

@kalkuttadrop6371 2 года назад

If the playlist for this series doesn't have the joke video at the front of the playlist, I'll be sad

@HA11EYS_COM3T 2 года назад

It's amazing you guys can deliver such quality in *days*, keep up the great work, guys! Love your content.

@abthedragon4921 2 года назад

Well, they said they'd do a series on Rasputin eventually, and here it is!

@KlaxontheImpailr 2 года назад

4:58 I seriously want rasputin’s glare as an avatar and I hope against hope he reaches Walpole level meme/cameo status.

@shibainu988 2 года назад

Since we're so close to WW1 with this series on Rasputin, i feel like they should make a continuation series on WW1 following the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse theme like for the 30 Years War series.

@kevindelacruz2602 2 года назад

I am so excited following this series! It is true that Rasputin's life and death are mysterious as of now. Keep it up guys!

@castofthree2715 2 года назад

ive been waiting for you guys to do this episode forever!!! thanks so much

@RenMaxon 2 года назад

Ah the famed man himself and his funny shenanigans

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Including a time at a restaurant where he got drunk, unbuttoned his pants and waved his junk in the faces of diners.

@royaltytries 2 года назад

I’ve waited a long time for this

@Spinobreaker 2 года назад

The Citation Needed Podcast did a great breakdown of this, very funny

@sigmascrub 2 года назад

Oh nice! I was just thinking "I wonder if EC is ever gonna do a real series on Rasputin"!

@bunnothebunny3286 2 года назад

It’s cool that this got recommended to me after listening to Rasputin.

@joshuawells835 2 года назад

In the dark of the night, Rasputin was also the villain of one of the best animated non-Disney films.

@Oxtocoatl13 2 года назад

I always crack laughing when the narrator talks about the happy past, shows people dancing and says something to the effect of "Ah, life was good... in 1916." And then Rasputin unleashes EVIL SPIRITS that make the people not like the Czar anymore. I feel like there's some pretty crucial history being retconned here.

@nathanielgarza9198 10 месяцев назад

I really like rasputin cause i dont realize, I only like Rasputin cause I am hypnotized

@pvtpain66k 2 года назад

RA RA... This episode, finally!

@draw4kicks 2 года назад

Absolutely cannot wait for the rest of this series!!!!

@DJtrainzzz 2 года назад

I love history and I’ve kinda been on a Russian kick and you guys just made my day (I also think you guys are freaking awesome and your one of my favourite if not my absolute favourite history channels 😄)

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

You are in good company; I'm also wild about Russian history (mainly tsarist Russia though; communist Russia is a giant ball of sad to me).

@USBearForce 2 года назад

6:46 Everyone talks about Hitler failing art school, but nobody talks about Stalin flunking seminary. Although to be fair, he probably wasn't suited for the clergy anyway.

@anderskorsback4104 2 года назад

Well, Stalin didn't really flunk it, he was rather kicked out because of his dabbling in socialism.

@rosiehawtrey 2 года назад

I'd say he's almost perfect. Mass murdering, religiously intolerant, sociopathic nutcase. Just need to install the Saville mod & he'd be Pope within a month.

@gabrielaagusts9854 2 года назад

I remember commenting for you guys to do a series on Rasputin 6 years ago and behold you are finally doing it, I've been waiting for years.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

FINALLY! Been waiting for more videos on the subject of Tsarist Russia for quite some time, especially after the last series on the Great Northern War, featuring Peter the Great.

@Edmonton-of2ec 2 года назад

I feel like the role of Rasputin in bringing down the dynasty and the Russian Empire is… somewhat overstated. The dynasty, hell, even Nicholas II could’ve survived the Siberian madman. It was war, and almost only war, that killed the Empire. If there wasn’t World War I, or it happened later, the Empire probably would’ve survived

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

WWI (plus bread shortages) was (were) the straw that broke the camel's back. Even before the Mad Monk arrived on the scene, there were already SEVERAL issues within the Russian Empire. The people needed a scapegoat for everything that was wrong with Russia, so they pinned the blame on a dirty, smelly, sex-addicted peasant.

@NintendoSegaKonami3 2 года назад

Tsar: Hey Guys, Big News. I'd like to introduce you to my new Best Friend. He's crazy, drunken, beardy, horny, scandal-ridden, magic wizard man and HE SMELLS LIKE A GOAT!!!

@hans3000 2 года назад

We're screwed.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

@@hans3000 🤣

@theartofjayden1761 2 года назад

Finally! I have been waiting for this for SO long!!!

@ElindorBG 2 года назад

FINALLY ! ... I've been waiting for this episode for years.....

@codyshi4743 2 года назад

Finally an extra history series about Rasputin.

@wikiuser92 2 года назад

Now if they would make something about Finland, I'd be happy.

@codyshi4743 2 года назад

Soviet Finish War. Maybe

@codyshi4743 2 года назад

@@wikiuser92 Are you Finnish?

@wikiuser92 2 года назад

@@codyshi4743 Yes. And the Winter War could be an interesting topic, yeah.

@stevetheweeb40 2 года назад

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow Most people looked at him with terror and with fear But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear He could preach the Bible like a preacher Full of ecstasy and fire But he also was the kind of teacher Women would desire Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kazachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze For the queen he was no wheeler dealer Though she'd heard the things he'd done She believed he was a holy healer Who would heal her son Ra ra Rasputin Lover of the Russian queen There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin Russia's greatest love machine It was a shame how he carried on But when his drinking and lusting And his hunger for power Became known to more and more people The demands to do something About this outrageous man Became louder and louder Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

@byeyaveanicetime6520 2 года назад

you misspelled Tsar its a t not c

@tada-kun982 2 года назад

@@byeyaveanicetime6520 It can be written Tsar, Zar or Czar, depending on your linguistic prefetence.

@Tewemeh2ter 2 года назад

I've been waiting for this for so long I'm so happy now

@shalen4 2 года назад

FINALLY! I’ve waited so long!

@deleted6792 2 года назад

We’re doing this for real now? Sweet!

@spaghetti_warmer1024 2 года назад

Rasputin: Hello Fellow Early 19th Century Commrade Stranger: Hey! Rasputin: *Proceeds to stare through all 48 layers of the Strangers soul* Stranger: OH HELL NO!

@twistedtachyon5877 2 года назад

"But also.... yes."

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Occlumency in the form of revealing your innermost soul-related conflicts.

@chenoaholdstock3507 2 года назад

Yay! Been waiting for this!!!

@lakshmikanthpadayachi508 2 года назад

Much Awaited 💛

@AKAZA-kq8jd 2 года назад

Nawwww He just a homeless wizard man that smells like a goat that became best friends with a timid easily swayed Tasr who was already a walking disaster.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

More like a dirty, smelly, sex-addicted peasant who became buddies with a tsar who was more of a family man than an autocratic ruler.

@johnaucamp7106 2 года назад

Watched 2 minutes, then went back to watch 2020s April Fools Ep again, because I WANTED TO.

@ryanschmitt6645 2 года назад

ive been waiting so long for this video!

@albertramirez7686 2 года назад

I love you guys. This is really helping with my comic research

@shrimpisdelicious 2 года назад

Fun fact: There is an official Pathfinder adventure where your goal is to track down and kill Rasputin.

@Kerriangel 2 года назад

“How did the Imperial family meet Rasputin?” Well, you see, there lived a certain man; In Russia long ago…

@cashthecurator666 4 месяца назад

He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow.

@annalessens8778 3 месяца назад

@@cashthecurator666 most people looked at him, with terror and with fear

@5lick067 2 года назад

I have been waiting with fingers crossed for every single upload after that April fools days song cover and finally it’s here :D

@NetAndyCz 2 года назад

I look forward to this one, this guy seems to have such a crazy life it is hard to distinguish the reality from the myths.

@nekakonjina6283 2 года назад

Finally the real Rasputin

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

Who not only serves as a healer to the tsarevich. He also drinks a lot of Madeira, boasts about himself nonstop, waves his junk in people's faces, and sends for women the way you and I would send for pizza.

@nekakonjina6283 2 года назад

@@M.E.ANDHistory yes i know

@adambebb99 2 года назад

6:48 today I learned that Q anon started in Tsarist Russia

@eid8fkebe7f27ejdjdjduyhsvqhwu2 2 года назад

That's no coincidence. Tsarist Russia was deeply antisemitic and the fundamental text for antisemites was also written a few years prior. It's just been renamed and recycled for a hundred years.

@ChocolateMilkCultLeader 2 года назад

Looking forward to this

@darkomarkovic9268 2 года назад

I have been waiting for this since the rhyme you guys did

@breaderikthegreat3224 2 года назад

6:47 This young man will accieve nothing in his life

@abcdef27669 2 года назад

Just imagine if Rasputin was the lover of another Russian monarch: Catherine II.

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

I don't recall her being very fond of his type. She preferred to be firmly in charge and changed lovers a few times. IMHO they'd collide more than mix. The czar and czarina during Rasputin's time were weak. Both politically and personally. Quite a bit different than Catherine II.

@andyjay729 2 года назад

@@kaltaron1284 "It takes a Russian to bring down a Russian I'm phat, I'm a cat, you're a rodent."

@atumra4125 2 года назад

@@kaltaron1284 yeah....I think a horse is more of her type....

@kaltaron1284 2 года назад

@@atumra4125 Ah that one. Not true but an interesting story. It's funny how courtiers thought undermining the authority of the czarina and therefore the czar in the face of civil unrest and brewing revolution, couldn't ever come back to bite them.

@M.E.ANDHistory 2 года назад

@@atumra4125 The horse story is a myth. She actually died of a stroke that she had when she was sitting on the 18th century version of a potty.